This Monday, November 14, the gardens I manage had their first killing frost. Most autumns, this happens more than two weeks earlier, in late October. Consequently, this year, I saw plants survive longer than is normal.
The longer-living plants delivered no extra yield. Plant vitality, via photosynthesis, is driven by light. In the spring, the Northern Hemisphere tilts toward the sun. Days lengthen, at first imperceptibly, then noticeably. Simultaneously, the soil warms and soil biota that enable the transfer of nutrients to plants (and weeds) are enlivened. Plants secrete growth hormones. They also produce glucose, protein and fat as they grow and thrive for months, up to and past the June 22 solstice.
But after the solstice, the Northern Hemisphere starts tilting away from the sun. The sun gradually becomes lower in the sky and the days shorten. Less sunlight means less growth. Though it’s plenty hot in mid-August, plants grow more slowly than they did earlier in the season. By mid-September, while plants remain vital, they don’t grow much. In October, vegetation shrinks visibly. Before the frost arrives, plants have already distinctly withered.
One could say that the frost kills plants. But really, pre-frost, autumn plants were already not long for this world. In fading light, they merely survive.
Humans resemble plants. We start from tiny seeds and grow rapidly, even before we’re visible. Once out in the daylight, we grow more, sometimes at an astonishing rate. We mature and thrive. As human autumn arrives, our vitality fades.
Then, as do plants, worn-out people cease to live. People’s deaths are officially attributed to such causes as pneumonia, cancer or heart failure. But these conditions typically manifest body-wide, time-driven degradation. Almost without exception, those whose deaths were attributed to Covid died because their bodies were worn out.
Some people will think I’m mean, or merely patronizing, for sketching the human life span by comparing people to tomatoes or snap beans. Others will say that I’m devaluing seniors or being a virus denier. But I’m describing reality and “The Science” far more accurately than lying politicians, medically-credentialed bureaucrats, Pharma reps and TV commentators have for the past 32 months. Unlike those in the foregoing list, I’m unbossed and unbought; I gain nothing by lying, so I don’t do it. And I’ve studied and read much science. My daily work immerses me in Biology.
From Day 1 of the Scamdemic, I’ve said that it never made sense to sacrifice the vital lives of younger people, ostensibly—but not actually—to protect those whose season on Earth was already near its end. Some continue to insist that a million people died of Covid. That’s like saying plants were killed by a November frost; it’s true only in the most technical, misleading sense.
The opportunists who implemented the lockdowns, masks, tests and vaxxes knew this. They pretended that this virus threatened healthy people, when it clearly didn’t.
The poet Dylan Thomas exhorted people to “not go gently into the good night” of life. Instead, he urged them to “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
This is pure, dysfunctional arrogance, which the gullible masses manifested, the government weaponized and Med/Pharma exploited during Coronamania. Old, sick people die. That’s how life is. Biology tells us not to rage against this. But politicians, bureaucrats, the media and Med/Pharma rage because it’s profitable.
After 32 months of government and media lies, widespread ignorance and irreversible, mass-scale social, psychological and economic destruction, let there be light.
Very nice piece. This resonates well with me as I'm certainly in my Autumn years, here at 57. Part of my hatred for this weaponized hypochondria is that I don't have time for this. Literally, my days are running out. I don't want to live them masked. I can't take a chance on experimental gene therapy. Being forced apart from family and friends is cruel and unusual. Especially those that are older than I am. Their time is even shorter. That time is precious and cannot be replaced by anything.
If I could have done anything differently during my younger years, it would have been to not treat my body as though it was indestructible. I know it was my choice to do so but I can't deny that such behavior is very much encouraged and common place. Very dumb.
And, for the fools that think they're protecting me, why? If you knew how I treated myself so foolishly, why on earth would you spend one second on worrying about my health? To be blunt, my life is not anyone else's to worry about.
But what we've really come to learn is that things like "my mask protects YOU" is a guilt trip that means "YOU MUST wear a mask" (to do likewise). The considerations of my life be damned. And all for nothing of benefit.
Ecclesiastes 3
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;